MOST POPULAR TELEVISION PROGRAMS 

MOST POPULAR (NUMBER ONE HIT) SONGS 

MOST POPULAR MOVIES 

MOST POPULAR NOVELS 

POPULAR CULTURE IN GENERAL

MOST POPULAR TELEVISION PROGRAMS

Gunsmoke (CBS)
Have Gun Will Travel (CBS)
The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)
Tales of Wells Fargo (NBC)
The Real McCoys (ABC)
I've Got a Secret (CBS)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC)
Maverick (ABC)
The Rifleman (ABC)
Wagon Train (NBC)
You Bet Your Life(NBC)                         TOP

MOST POPULAR (NUMBER ONE HIT) SONGS

All I Have to Do Is Dream by The Everly Brothers
All the Way by Frank Sinatra
April Love by Pat Boone
At the Hop by Danny & The Juniors (Number 1 song of 1958)
Chances Are by Johnny Mathis
Get a Job by The Silhouettes
Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley (Number 3 song of 1957)
Lollipop by The Chordettes
Silhouettes by The Rays
Tequila by The Champs
That’ll Be the Day by Buddy Holly and The Crickets
The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley
Twilight Time by The Platters
Wake Up Little Susie by The Everly Brothers
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On by Jerry Lee Lewis
Yakety Yak by the Coasters
You Send Me by Sam Cooke                                  TOP

MOST POPULAR MOVIES

12 Angry Men
A Night to Remember
An Affair to Remember
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gigi (1958 Academy Award winner)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
South Pacific
The Blob
The Fly
Vertigo
Witness for the Prosecution                            TOP

MOST POPULAR NOVELS

By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Dr. Seuss publishes The Cat in the Hat                         TOP

POPULAR CULTURE IN GENERAL

The word Aerospace is coined.

The sack dress is the fashion, along with the empire line dress.

The Wham-O Company produces it first Frisbees.

The popular toys are Slinkys and Hula Hoops.

In Detroit, Berry Gordy founds Motown Records.

Humphrey Bogart dies.

The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death
(eventually ruled self-defense).

Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army.

1958 babies: Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin, Wade Boggs, Madonna, Michael Jackson.

Pizza Hut opens in Kansas City, Missouri.

American Express card debuts, as does BankAmericard (forerunner of VISA).

Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.

The Milwaukee Braves win the World Series.

The Detroit Lions are Pro Football champions.

The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup.

In the first Major League Baseball regular season game ever played in California, the San
Francisco Giants beats the Los Angeles Dodgers.

A 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.

Arnold Palmer wins the Masters golf title.                        TOP